Sacred 2:Demonic Blow

The Shadow Warrior focuses his entire strength in a mighty, purposeful blow with his equipped weapon. This attack is especially useful against strong or heavily-armored opponents. This is a Weapon Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Death Warrior Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage (wielding starting weapon): 46-57 Physical Multiplies all damage types of the equipped weapon. Has an innate bonus to attack rating. Regeneration Time: 3.4 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Wounding - Chance to cause an open wound (physical damage over time). (19.7% + 0.3% per CA level chance) Vehemence - Allows Demonic Blow to inflict area damage on nearby opponents. (1/2 damage) Silver Frailty - Temporarily reduces the opponent's armor class. (50% + 0.1% per CA level decrease in opponent's physical armor) Poisoning - Adds poison damage (poison damage over time). (4% + 1% per CA level, this actually seems to be direct poison damage, not DoT) Gold Life Leech - Leeches life from opponents when they are hit. (3 + 1.5 per CA level) - This works exactly the same as Life leeched per hit and is modified by Tactics Lore, but not by +% Damage. Trauma - Chance to cause a severe wound. (20% + 0.2% per CA level Chance to inflict Deep Wounds)

Demonic Blow without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - indirectly, it increases weapon damage, thus making Demonic Blow hit harder. Also increases the leech life effect of the mod 3a "Life Leech" and allows for modification points.
• Death Warrior Focus - reduces regeneration time and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, and just like Tactics Lore, it allows for modification points.
• Any weapon lore - will indirectly increase this combat art's speed, damage and chance to hit by allowing the equippng of higher level weapons used to execute this combat art.
• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time.
• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art and lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Strength will increase damage for melee weapons, and chance to hit
• Dexterity will increase damage for ranged weapons (and some melee weapons), and chance to hit
• Intelligence will increase damage for magic staves
• Stamina will lower regeneration time
• Willpower will increase damage for Lightsabers (Community Patch Only)

Usage Strategies

• Keep the CA level either very high and use it as a one hit wonder to kill off champs and on bosses, and utilize from the high Ca lvl and gain high chance for modification effects.
• Or keep it very low and use it as your main attack when other combat arts are on cooldown.

Never be hasty to increase a CA, you can not revert back to a lower CA lvl.

• Using regen per hit modifier will allow you to have no regeneration time, so you can land as many Demonic Blows as you want.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Strong single target damage, can be modified to attack several opponents through an area of effect mod.
• Low regeneration time
• Strong boss killer with modifications for wounds and poison debuffs.
• Fast execution animation making it viable for a short regeneration time.
• The mod 1b "Vehemence" (area of effect) and the mod 3a "Life Leech" (enhanced by Tactics Lore) work good together, as you can add to your health a considerable amount of hitpoints with only one hit.

Cons

• Single target attack, must be modified to attack more than one opponent.
• Mod 2a "Frailty" only reduces opponent's physical armor.

See Also

• Shadow Warrior
• Shadow Warrior Combat Arts
• Skills
• Shadow Warrior Guides

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